Desmatodon

Desmatodon
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous, Kasimovian
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Diadectomorpha
Family: †Diadectidae
Genus: †Desmatodon
Case, 1908
Species
  • †D. hollandi Case, 1908 (type)
  • †D. hesperis Vaughn, 1969

Desmatodon is an extinct genus of diadectid reptiliomorph. With fossils found from the Kasimovian (Missourian) stage of the Late Carboniferous of Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico in the United States,[1] Desmatodon is the oldest known diadectid. Two species are currently recognized: the type species D. hollandi and the species D. hesperis.

  1. ^ Voigt, S.; Ganzelewski M (2010). "Toward the origin of amniotes: Diadectomorph and synapsid footprints from the early Late Carboniferous of Germany" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (1): 66. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0021. Retrieved 3 December 2012.